Observatory Design in the Mountain West: Scaling Measurements and Modeling in the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada

0610112巴尔斯该项目解决了基础设施的需要，以改善内华达州山脉和圣华金河谷水文管理的知识基础，它代表了一个重要的一步，发展一个环境观测站的山区半干旱河谷景观的美国西部。该项目有两个主要目标：（1）制定流域尺度测量和建模战略，以便通过分析现有数据对优先问题进行研究;（2）评估为区域系统水文过程研究提供地面测量所需的仪器组设计。这个雄心勃勃的两年计划将由一个跨学科的10人团队执行。在气候变化预计将大大改变水文过程的季节性时间和速度的环境中，该项目解决了水供应的重要问题。该项目的广泛影响计划包括三个要素：传播、全球教育和纳入代表性不足的群体，该计划的特点是将外联和教育活动与研究工作相结合。该项目将加州的几所大学聚集在一起，建立伙伴关系，有可能为科学家和更大的社区开发非常有用的基础设施。该项目是为美国国家科学基金会的分布式环境观测倡议-水沃茨网络-开发使能技术的一套试验台项目之一。

0610112BalesThis project addresses infrastructure needs to improve the knowledge base for hydrologic management in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and San Joaquin Valley, and it represents an important step toward developing an environmental observatory for mountain-semi-arid valley landscapes of the far western United States. The project has two major goals: (1) formulate basin-scale measurement and modeling strategies to enable research on priority issues by analyzing existing data and (2) assess instrument cluster designs needed to provide ground-based measurements for research on hydrologic processes in the regional system. The ambitious two-year plan will be carried out by an interdisciplinary ten-person team. The project addresses the important problem of water availability in an environment where climate change is expected to significantly shift the seasonal timing and rates of hydrologic processes. The broader impacts plan of the project includes three elements: dissemination, global education, and integration of under-represented groups, and the plan is characterized by integration of outreach and education activities with the research efforts. The project brings several California universities together in a partnership that has the potential for developing highly useful infrastructure for scientists and the larger community. This project is one of the suite of test-bed projects to develop enabling technologies for the WATERS Network, a distributed environmental observatory initiative of NSF.